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Join World Vision Water Challenge Twitter Party May 3 #WorldVisionWater

Paula — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:46:05 +0000

How often do you think about water? Do you wake up wondering where it will come from today? Do you worry about leaving your family to walk for miles to collect a bucket of water for all of you to use? Does your heart hurt thinking that your child will never be able to attend school if he or she has to walk to collect water for your family? Do you consider whether you will have enough water to cook dinner, wash hands, clean clothing, bathe? I didn’t think so. I rarely thought about water here, until World Vision Canada asked me to consider doing the World Vision Canada clean water challenge. My family learned many things as a result of that challenge recently. First we realized how much water we have flowing throughout our home. It is always mere steps away. We noticed how health and safety can be compromised when you do not have access to clean water to wash your hands or clean the food before cooking. We neglected laundry and dishes. We walked more and had to think more about how to get water. It was an odd experience, but also a very brief one. It helped remind us we are fortunate to live in Canada. We are a resource rich country. Several other Canadian influencers have also taken on the World Vision Water Challenge. Merry Spooner Kuchle of Merry About Town did the one tap all day challenge with her family. Tammy of @inRDream did the World Vision water challenge with her family of six! Read more about her experience here: Opening Our Eyes. A couple more will also have stories to share before the party. [tweetthis]PLZ RT @linkedmoms invites you to learn more about The #WorldVisionWater Challenge May 3rd @8 p.m. EST.[/tweetthis] We hope you can join us to discuss the many reasons why water is such a vital resource for families around the world. Consider taking the challenge before the chat or giving the gift of clean water. Globally 663 million people do not have access to clean water. That is a tragedy that World Vision Canada is working to address and change. Join us to learn more about The World Vision Water Challenge May 3rd at 8 p.m. EST. Please follow Hosts @inkscrblr @WorldVisionCan @linkedmoms and @DownshiftingPRO and @Merry120 as well as @MOMEO and @INRDream. A few more facts about World Vision Canada Clean Water gifts: Clean Water gifts range from $25 to $50 a month and they make a dramatic impact. Every minute a child under five dies from diarrhea related to contaminated water. Children lead healthier lives and child death rates dramatically decrease due to a decline in diseases caused by unclean water, poor sanitation and lack of hygiene When children and families have access to clean water, it transforms every aspect of their lives. Together with improved sanitation and proper hygiene, clean water brings real change. Sustainability is a goal for WVC projects. World Vision provides more people with clean water than any other NGO. We hope to see you there May 3rd at 8 p.m. EST. And please take a moment to visit http://www.worldvision.ca/ [tweetthis]Please join us May 3rd for a #worldvisionwater @worldvisioncan twitter chat. 8 p.m. EST.[/tweetthis] Remember the hashtag #worldvisionwater and stay tuned for more information about this important topic. Please consider how you can make an impact on someone else’s life with the gift of clean water.

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Build a Better Blogger Outreach Program in 2016 – Influencer Marketing and the Changing Landscape

Paula — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 07:09:04 +0000

You cannot stand still in the world of social media, or influencer marketing. Smart blogger outreach coordinators and businesses are at once, business people, marketers, and cool hunters too. They are always on the lookout for new trends, ideas, people, events, tools, and content that resonates. This is one of the things I love the most about the field I work in. It is ever evolving and dynamic. This is not a post about me gazing into a crystal ball and telling you what’s the hottest trend for 2016. I’m not interested in that right now and in fact I have seen a few too many of those social media prediction posts this December and January. Rather than speculate, I wanted to reflect on what has changed this past year. What are we missing out on and what should we be doing together as a best practice for influencer marketing? As I start 2016, I have a vision at Thrifty Mom Media, that builds out a bigger, bolder, partnership in 2016 and beyond. That’s what this post is about – best practice for influencer marketing in the year to come. The job starts when you engage someone like me and evolves IF and when you hire the right influencers. In 2015 this social media marketing field has grown and come a fairly long way. Many social and digital media marketing organizations are understanding and building influencer marketing right into their daily marketing outreach. Some are building budget into that too, which is crucial to the success of current marketing plans in 2016. But we still have a way to go. I know this. I see both sides of this equation because I blog here and connect with brands multiple times a day. I also build strategy and hire the right influencers for brands, non profits and businesses. I find the right influencers at the right time for the right brands and I build their programs on the right channels for them. Traditional advertising is no longer the smartest way to advertise, nor is it the wisest spend. Print circulation consistently keeps declining. Digital ad revenue climbs, while print ad revenue falls. It’s as simple as that. Read the Pew Report for more on that. Traditional media has seen a dramatic decrease in revenue drive by audience fleeing traditional media. TV is even not doing what it once was. It’s as simple as this – fewer people read the papers and watch TV and connect with magazines so ad money spent there is sometimes misplaced. Consider content and influencer marketing like art. Traditional media is a Jackson Pollock painting. Stand back and shoot the paint at the canvas and hope that it connects and that the right eye balls land on it. It buys a broad canvas. Content marketing, influencer marketing, is like standing right in front of the painting and drawing a specific picture intended to be given to a very focused audience. So imagine a picture of a mother with child reading together, that is created for a library. That resonates emotionally with almost everyone entering the building. It reminds people of all the happy feelings they have when they read to younger children, and all the warm fuzzies they had as a child when they were read to. Now imagine that you can click on the child with book picture and buy the book they are reading, and buy a poster of the picture, and maybe even the same shirt the mom is wearing, and have it delivered stat right to your home, tablet or e-reader. Your traditional Jackson Pollock is cool and sometimes really interesting to look at. But more than half the people you display that in front of are going to think UGH and walk right by. It’s a missed opportunity. The painting of the child is memorable and resonates, plus it’s in the right place. Influencer marketing is about the right message resonating at the right time in front of the right audience. So now that you all understand that…what’s missing? Well, some brands are doing influencer marketing or content marketing or blogger outreach now when in fact they were not doing it before. That’s progress. Some public relations companies are even doing bits of this so much better than they were in 2013 and 2014. But they are often still stuck playing catchup. When you spend too much time playing catchup you miss the next softball being lobbed at you. Where am I going with this? We are sometimes now connecting the right reader with the right influencer at the right time. But we are still not focused enough. This field still needs improvement. Here’s what you are not doing well enough yet. Dedicating budget to influencer and social media marketing. I’m not sure why this is still such a hurdle for some companies. Carve out a budget for social media marketing and influencers. It’s simple and necessary. This is your new media marketing budget. You might need to fight for it and pull from traditional media but it NEEDS to be a dedicated fund. Ads and sponsored posts are not free. Influencers have a very unique market and they are well worth the investment. Influencers are people who blog, VLOG, or have an on line magazine with an established audience and social channels. Some generate millions of impressions weekly. They drive traffic to your site or your business. They bring people in the door. They create happy feelings about your brand. They amplify emotions and messages. HIRE The BEST INFLUENCERS for the job. What does that look like? This is not always the influencer, or influencers, with the highest number of readers or impressions. This might like a 40 year old Mom of two school aged kids, who specifically has one child with autism, being contracted to tell her story about why she chooses X brand of cotton clothing for her son. It is the product that is the softest with no abrasive tags or seams. She is he right person for this influential partnership. AUTHENTICITY: Hire the best influencers for the job AND also don’t forget about authenticity. You can’t find the most authentic people on a list that you bought from someone. The authentic influencers are to be found by reading blogs and watching social media channels and being there involved paying attention to conversations. I know 8-10 adoptive parents in Ontario with blogs. Every year Wendy’s fast food restaurant runs a few different seasonal campaigns to raise money for Wendy’s Wonderful Kids and for foster care and adoption. Have I ever seen any of the contacts I know who are adoptive parent bloggers, or adoptees who blog, involved on those campaigns telling real adoption stories that connect with an emotion? NO. Never. I always shake my head every year at that one. Don’t google 20 Ontario bloggers and send a press release, then ask for rates, and wait for someone to rewrite a press release and post it. As an adoptive parent I can tell you this approach has the opposite effect intended. It actually makes me want to disengage because the happy charitable giving back feeling is lost when I start to think that was wasted money. Hire the best influencer for the job and then maintain them as an asset and a partner. Once you have the perfect fit, what comes next? You’ve found, connected and are happy with the start of the relationship with this particular influencer Mom with son as in example above. The clothing brand loves her. She has a very specific community and she writes about special needs and parenting and she extends that into real life talking to other moms naturally throughout the course of each month. She does that naturally all the time without being told to insert message here in each conversation that comes up…Now you work at getting her to take this job on longer. How will you do that? The brand should work with this influencer to ask her what it would take to make this into a one year relationship. Communicate regularly with her. Nurture the relationship and contract her for a certain time. Don’t lose sight of the individual touch. THINK Longterm. COMMIT. My buzzword that I, as a blogger, started hearing a lot about in the final quarter of 2015, was exclusivity. I was asked many times at end of 2015 to quote what I might charge to be involved in an exclusive relationship with Brand X or Brand Y. If anything, I think this might be a trend to watch in 2016. I know I said this was not that post – but I am tossing in one trend to watch. Exclusivity. ( for the record if you want to read about digital marketing trends in 2016 I recommend this read from Cision.) I would love to see this trend play out over the next two years digitally. I think authenticity is important and once you find the right authentic blogger that fits and is willing to have a longterm relationship and also is professional then you should potentially look at building a contract that asks for her to be an exclusive blog ambassador for 4-5 months for your brand and ask that she specifically doesn’t write or discuss any other soft kid’s clothing brands for that timeframe. In example above with the blogger mom who has a child with unique needs and fits the soft clothing brand image perfectly – you should provide her with constant fresh product for her child or children. Ask her if she also wants to feature a guest post from your expert on sensory processing and the effect of clothing on a child with autism. Maybe she’d like to also offer her readers a giveaway of some of the products she likes best from the line. Ask her if she might also run an interview with the person who created the brand. Give her concrete specifics for during that timeframe and then also add budget to the contract. Be prepared to negotiate and double or triple what you would allot for a post. If you want exclusivity in an influencer relationship you should understand that it costs more. For instance this same blogger might write a post about your clothing and then be asked next month to write something similar about soft hats for a competitor. She loses the opportunity to draw income from that other post so you need to make this contract and relationship worth it to her. This is still authentic and real and a relationship. It’s clearly not a one night stand. This is a business, so treat it as one. If you hire the best influencers, then you should be able to maintain and build these relationships. Don’t get hung up on allotting more money to one blogger for exclusivity because it can be very worthwhile. [tweetthis]If you don’t have time to do it then you contract social media out. Luckily Thrifty Mom Media does that. https://ca.linkedin.com/in/inkscrblr[/tweetthis] And one last thought. YOU NEED to LOVE social media marketing and influencer marketing in order to do this well and hire the best influencers. If you don’t believe in what you are selling then the campaign is never going to work. If you also use social media and read blogs and enjoy spending time reading and connecting and gathering news from Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram bloggers and influencers can tell. It’s all part of building the best relationships and delivering results for your clients. Start with the idea that you need to hire the best influencers for the job and then build on that with some of the points above and your new media marketing efforts should begin to improve and resonate in 2016. By the way this is also what I do at Thrifty Mom Media. Contact me at inkscrblr@rogers.com for information or a quote. Connect with me Paula Schuck on LinkedIn. Hire the best influencers for the job.

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Save The Date for a World Vision Canada and Linked Moms #MeaningfulGifts Twitter Party November 18, at 8 p.m. EST. Prizes to Be Announced.

Paula — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 09:06:14 +0000

It’s no secret how much World Vision Canada means to me. I travelled many miles with several World Vision workers in 2014. I told many of those stories over the past year. We climbed a mountain by car, on roads that were not remotely stable, while goats looked on perched in trees. We tried not to look down for fear our legs would fail us at the end of the journey. The destination one day led us so far up a mountain just outside Bucaramanga that it seemed like we were standing on the top of the world, when suddenly a school revealed itself. The teacher there, once a sponsored child was now encouraging a class of sponsored children to excel at topics like religion and astronomy. That particular day the lesson I learned is one I took home to my children. That kids in some areas of Colombia climb a mountain almost one hour each way just to get the chance to sit in a classroom and learn. It’s an amazing commitment that is almost impossible to imagine. Proof that child sponsorship gives way to changed communities. This time of year, the World Vision Holiday Gift catalogue also changes lives. Through meaningful holiday gifts you might help buy medicines to stock a medical clinic in an area where there is great need for that health care support. You might choose a goat, hens, or a rooster for a family that needs support building a livelihood, and then gift that on behalf of a relative, a teacher, or a good friend. Each gift given through the holiday gift catalogue comes with a special gift card you can send to the recipient. Last year we donated soccer balls to a community on behalf of one of my daughter’s teachers. And we gave gift of giving cards to several friends so they could choose something that resonated with them from the holiday gift catalogue. When I glimpse through the holiday gift catalogue there are many gifts that jump out at me. This past week my daughter chose meaningful gifts from World Vision Canada gift catalogue. You can read about Payton’s choice to use some of her babysitting money to rehabilitate a child soldier. When I think about the day we climbed the mountain by car and met the kids in the school at the top of the world I am reminded how powerful and important education is for everyone. I am moved to gift something this year that matters to me. The fact that you can furnish an entire classroom for under $200 in some areas of the world is completely astonishing and amazing to me. It’s a gift that continues to give back to future generations and will leave the world a better place. It’s a gift I have seen at work in Colombia. On November 18th at 8 p.m. EST, join me @inkscrblr and @downshiftingpro as we @linkedmoms support @WorldVisionCan and their holiday gift catalogue during a one hour twitter party. That’s a conversation entirely help on twitter for one hour. We will take the hour to discuss giving back to others and the power of the gift catalogue to change lives. [tweetthis]Make a difference this year give #MeaningfulGifts from @WorldVisionCan holiday gift catalogue.[/tweetthis] Save the date November 18th. Join us then and you might even win one of the amazing handcrafted gifts that we are giving away that evening. [tweetthis]Join us November 18th at 8 p.m. EST for a #MeaningfulGifts twitter party.[/tweetthis]

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Share Your Best Carefree Life Hacks Twitter Party and #Giveaway

Paula — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 08:10:13 +0000

Times have changed. Thank heavens for progress. When I was a teen I remember waiting endlessly for my period to start as if it were some great mystical force of nature that would transform me into someone grownup and sophisticated. And then it happened and my period was well, less than magical. It was also sometimes unpredictable and it was often heavier than I anticipated. It sometimes led to some near disasters. Hacks of any sort, period or otherwise, were not on my radar back then. I became the master of my own limited repertoire of period tricks. The jacket waist wrap. You know that thing you have to suddenly do when your pad or tampon leaks. Wrap, excuse and leave. Bah. Bye. I learned to carry Advil or Motrin around in my purse in case menstrual cramps hit hard at a baby shower. And I had a heating pad that was well worn. But I didn’t really have any super savvy hacks. Now that I am a Mom to girls, I am forced to be smart about period planning for their sake. We talk openly about periods of course. And I prepare both of my girls for emergencies with a backpack period kit armed with all the supplies they could need. But beyond that do we have any hacks? We have plans and we have cell phones too so my kids know I’m essentially their period panic button should an emergency crop up at camp or at school. My girls are super into Pinterest and they read a lot of magazines too. So that’s what I mean when I say times have changed. Hacks are everywhere you look. Hacks of all sorts. My favourite hack for life as a Mom is simple. I bag and wash fruit every Sunday night to make it easily available for school and camp. I also used to brown the ground beef immediately after purchase so I can save time during the week cooking. Tell me what your lifestyle hack is and you can win a Carefree period purse pack shown above. I have four of those to giveaway to lucky Canadian readers. Follow the instructions below. AND join Carefree Hack chat and Twitter party will be taking place at 12:30 p.m. EST on Thursday, July 23rd. There are several prizes shown as above. We also have a month long contest – July 27th-August 21st Enter for a chance to win a Carefree Everyday Kit (a perfect purse-sized pouch that contains Carefree liners and other must-have items to avoid style or beauty mishaps on the go) The stipulations for entry are: readers must follow @Carefree_CA on Twitter and put forth a hack idea (incorporating Carefree is a bonus!) to be eligible to enter. Entry-Form I am working with Carefree to promote this twitter hack party and as such I am compensated. My opinion is my own and it is honest.

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Save the Date For Parkbridge Lifestyle Communities Twitter Party – $1200 in prizes April 15 8 p.m.

Paula — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 18:38:36 +0000

Super excited to share this save the date post with everyone! Remember last August when we visited Parkbridge Lifestyle community in Wasaga Beach? It was really lovely. You can read more about that if you click through to the post from last August. We know that it is almost spring and some people are already starting their summer resort and cottage planning. After all when you live in Canada where we have a mere two months of summer, you need to get accustomed to wringing it for all it is worth. So you plan every last weekend and you map out all the best spots to stay. Parkbridge Lifestyle Communities knows Canada. They have some beautiful properties across Canada. Anyways here’s the scoop. Linked Moms will be hosting a twitter party event with Parkbridge on April 15 at 8 p.m. EST!! Parkbridge is generous and we have over $1200 in prizes to share with you. So T this up. Add it to your Outlook Calendar, your Google Calendar and your kitchen calendar too. You don’t want to miss this one!! Parkbridge Lifestyle communities will be giving away a Mini Stay at one of their resorts. We also have some Visa gift cards to share too!! Can’t wait to see you there. Follow all the Twitter handles below and follow the hashtag #ParkbridgeLife the night of the party. RSVP to follow soon. Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 Time: 8:00pm -9:00pm ET Hosts: @ParkbridgeLife Co-Hosts: @LinkedMoms @Inkscrblr @DownshiftingPRO Questions: @LinkedMoms Hashtag: #ParkbridgeLife Prizing eligibility: Canada Only Over $1,200 in prizing RSVP to follow soon!! This is your save the date notice only.

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World Vision Canada Christmas Gifts – Party RSVP November 19 at 8 p.m. EST

Paula — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:27:14 +0000

Many of you who are regular readers here know that this September I travelled with World Vision Canada to Colombia. While I was there for the better part of a week I toured many of the area development programs where the work of volunteers and staff at World Vision Canada is changing lives. The experience was life altering and heartbreaking all at once. I saw children who had grown up with World Vision Canada sponsorship and become leaders in their communities. I recently wrote about Johan Espinosa who impressed me so because he has spent his life working with World Vision and has inspired others to do the same. It was an honour to see lives changed because of people in Canada and their generosity. This Wednesday night Linked Moms are talking about World Vision Canada Christmas gifts. We hope you will join us in generating conversation about holiday gift giving and how you can use the holidays to make a difference for others. Teaching my kids compassion is a huge goal that is lifelong. So this year we sponsored a child and we also have chosen two gifts from the World Vision gift catalogue. This holiday season we are hoping more families will take them time to visit the World Vision Canada gift catalogue. We want people to think about gifting things that make a difference this year. Choose to buy your child’s teacher a World of Change giving card. Choose to gift one of the many beautiful artisan gifts that give back to the people who have created them. Perhaps you might gift some fruit trees, or a pig, chickens, or goats. Margarita Ibbott gifted several items to her family members already. I love how she matched the gifts with each personality in her family. Her sporty child chose a gift of soccer balls. Her husband chose a gift that gives back. Angie Long Pitre has also had the same conversation with her children. She is giving gifts with heart to many of her loved ones this year. Olfa Turki at Our Family World is also sharing her vision for a heartfelt Christmas, executed with help of World Vision gift catalogue, as is Merry Spooner Kuchle in Alberta and Heather Oliver Hamilton in Richmond Hill. Many Moms and bloggers and friends are choosing gifts that help build an entire community this year and we hope you will too. You can also read Stephanie’s post here and Candace’s post about stocking stuffers. Gifts from the catalogue don’t have to cost a lot to be meaningful. Please RSVP to win some of the prizes that we have available throughout the evening. We have over $400 in prizing to give to you. Some of the presents would be perfect for your loved ones this year. Each of the presents here represents a gift that helps a child, or an entire community in one of over 90 countries that World Vision has a presence in. While in Colombia, I was able to see how a simple gift of soccer balls can change the lives of two young men, sponsored as children and now studying to become phys ed teachers. Those same young men were inspiring an entire team of 45 boys by giving them a chance to play and a healthy lifestyle with sports and goals, in a community plagued by poverty and the threat of domestic heroin use. We have: SIX gifts to give away: Three – WORLD OF CHANGE gift cards valued at $30 each. One gorgeous artisan silk scarf (valued at $95.) It’s handcrafted in VietNam, in a small If you are a scarf girl like me, then you know someone who would love this pretty piece. One beautiful Haitian hand beaded necklace valued at $85 And a stylish silver cuff bracelet valued at $95. You can read more about my journey in Colombia and the work that World Vision does: Part 1: The Briefing Part 2: Where Hope Lives Part 3: What a Soccer Ball Looks Like Part 4: When I Sponsor a Child with World Vision Canada Part 5: Two Hands Are Enough Part 6: The Strength of Women in Morales Duque. Part 7: The Importance of Uniforms in Sports For more information visit the main World Vision site. You can also follow World Vision on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/worldvisioncan/ and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorldVisionCan I travelled with World Vision Canada as a guest so I could tell these stories. I will continue to tell these stories of resiliency at our twitter party November 19th at 8 p.m. EST. Ask me how you can schedule a sponsored chat or twitter party. Leave me a comment too while you are at it. Have you visited the World Vision Canada gift catalogue yet?

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The Most Meaningful Holiday Gifts #worldvisiongifts Twitter Party Save The Date Nov. 19

Paula — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 02:52:40 +0000

This is a twitter party with a difference. We at Linked Moms, often tackle hard topics, like infertility, adoption, advocacy and poverty. It’s one of the things that makes us unique. We have a voice, a platform, and an audience too. We care about topics that matter. We care about families and issues. We never underestimate our readers. We know they want to hear about things that matter. We know several of you are just like us parenting kids with special needs, trying to make a difference in the world and struggling with the reality of aging parents. Life is rarely simple, or easy, but it is a gift worth cherishing always. As we head into the holiday season, we know many of you are like us in hoping that you are able to choose the most meaningful gifts for loved ones. If you have been following along here for the last couple of months then you know that I travelled with World Vision Canada to Colombia so I could write about sponsorship and gift catalogue donations and the difference that Canadians are making in the country where poverty, and drugs are still very real threats to children. It was an amazing opportunity and the experience of seeing lives changed, also changed my life as well. It helped me to share with my kids the many reasons I am moved to gift things from the World Vision Canada gift catalogue this year. Together we are choosing gifts with meaning, as a family. This is a topic you will read more about here as I head into the holiday season. The Most Meaningful Holiday Gifts matter globally to other children, and other families. They teach compassion and a concept that isn’t found inside a big box store or a package. The most meaningful holiday gifts also teach kids to be involved in the world around them. Everyone has an impact. This month Linked Moms wants you to be part of our Twitter Party November 19th at 8 p.m. EST. with World Vision Canada. World Vision Canada will join us to answer questions and discuss why this year is the perfect opportunity to give gifts with meaning from their gift catalogue. The hashtag will be #worldvisiongifts and the RSVP list will follow shortly. Don’t forget to add your name then and put us into your calendar. We have several prizes to give away that evening. Don’t forget to follow us each on Twitter for more news about the RSVP and the pre-party post. INKSCRBLR LINKEDMOMS DOWNSHIFTINGPRO WORLDVISIONCAN Please keep reading all my stories from the trip with World Vision Canada. You can read more: Part 1: The Briefing Part 2: Where Hope Lives Part 3: What a Soccer Ball Looks Like Part 4: When I Sponsor a Child with World Vision Canada Part 5: Two Hands Are Enough Part 6: The Strength of Women in Morales Duque. Sponsor a child and change a community. Or you can buy something for someone this year that makes a difference to an entire community like this one. There is a bit of everything in the World Vision Canada gift catalogue. From soccer balls, to chickens and goats to latrines and medicine. Or you can help to buy a community centre. The Most Meaningful Holiday Gifts can be found in the World Vision gift catalogue this year. Visit the gift catalogue here: http://bit.ly/1pbSZpV For more information visit the main World Vision site. You can also follow World Vision on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/worldvisioncan/ and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorldVisionCan I travelled with World Vision Canada as a guest so I could tell these stories. I am sharing more stories this week and next. Join us with World Vision Canada on November 19th at 8 p.m. EST. Ask me how you can schedule a sponsored chat or twitter party.

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My Favourite Shopping App and a #Flippsgiving Twitter Party

Paula — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 07:30:00 +0000

Talking turkey, but no idea where to get the best deal on your bird this year? Flipp has the answer. Thanksgiving can be a beautiful opportunity to share a meal with your family, decorate your house and start celebrating all that you are grateful for. But let’s face it. First there’s the shopping, the cleaning, the cooking and decorating. All of that can be hard on the budget. Sticker shock from the turkey alone can leave you in despair. This year I am using Flipp shopping app because it rocks. Honestly, not sure why this wasn’t around months ago. It’s a treat to use. The app is fun, interactive and it saves you money. Plus it eliminates that ridiculous messy pile of flyers that sits on my dining room table. Let me show you. I have been playing with Flipp shopping app for a couple of weeks now. I need a few things and I am hunting around for some big ticket items so, this app is a beautiful tool. But first, Thanksgiving shopping. We are in need of some new dishes. I don’t have time to schlepp all over town. So I opened Flipp tonight and found these on the front of the Walmart flyer. LOVE! Price is right, so maybe these are the ones for us. What do you think? Yes? Flipp (developed by Toronto-based tech company, Wishabi) brings the flyer to the digital age, aggregating all your favorites onto one digital device for access anywhere, anytime. It makes saving sexy for digital people like me. Flip shopping app is also giving Flipp users across Canada a chance to win a special Flippsgiving prize. To enter just download the app and tweet a Thanksgiving-themed photo, or share a holiday savings tip, inspired by your use of Flipp! The prize is a $250 gift card. To qualify for the prize, each entry, across Twitter (@getflipp) or Instagram (getflipp) needs to be tagged with the hashtag #Flippsgiving! Flipp is also having a #Flippsgiving twitter party. October 7, from 9-10pm EST. Just share your family traditions, tips and tricks. The #Flippsgiving winner will be announced during the Twitter party – and two additional $50 gift cards will be given away exclusively to party participants! Go ahead and download Flipp and let me know if you agree. Flipp makes me happy to circle a product and clip it for reference later. So, now that I have Thanksgiving all worked out, I am shopping for some big ticket items. Appliances. Up next on Flipp…. This is a sponsored post. I have been compensated. My opinion is all my own.

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